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Hillbilly ville

A travel blog entry by usacoasttocoast

... a high point when the Sacremento Sheriffs department arrive, not sure what they came for (we decided it was a drug raid) Liz and I offered to be searched by Montgomery, see photos, but had to settle for the picture. Getting ****** now looking forward to our week of luxury in the hotel on Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco, a bath at last and a real bed for my oh so aching ...

Environmental side of travel

A travel blog entry by kalifornier

Here is my takeaway from Asia travel: DO NOT buy any ivory products. When I traveled around China I saw numerous such shops; a recent Nat Geo investigation revealed 90% of ivory used in China is coming from slaughtered African elephants and then smuggled into the country. Please don't be a part of this Blood Ivory trade. And ...

Carson City to Shingle Springs/Placerville

A travel blog entry by beckyprice

... Mine in Grass Valley was well worth the drive for the day. It's a silver mine that is now a beautiful state park. You can daily spend the better part of a day going on a couple of tours and going through the mine museum with a picnic the end. We found a really good restaurant in Grass Valley as well as awonderful quilt ...

Travelmania

A travel blog entry by acsewall

... for the stop in Oakland. Then we ran to Jack London Square for our Amtrak. (Coincidentally we were running behind a poor jogger who probably thought we were mad tourists chasing him.) All of this was once again very stressful. More nihilistic rants from Aaron. We got on the train with 8 minutes to spare, gave each other a well-deserved bro-fist, sat back, and relaxed. I guess Rhys and I got a double workout today. (Double workout?! What does it mean????)

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Goodbye Portland, hello 50 hour train ride

A travel blog entry by katewanamaker

... oh I don’t know, lets say 80 years old. It was mass chaos on the platform. No one knew where to go or where to stand. Several of these people asked me questions about what they should do and where they should be. I told them what I knew but this was insane. The conductor and other workers were overwhelmed and I don’t think they knew how to handle this. Surprisingly these people were rather pushy and didn’t seem to have any regard for anyone else, for the ...

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